The victory of Turkey's Islamist rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) -- on what critics argue was a campaign built on fear and polarisation and party supporters contest was affirmation of its support among voters -- now leaves open the question of how the AKP will rule in the deeply divided country.

It may or may not target the Koc group or any other group, but one does not have to be an oracle to predict that the AKP will take steps to radically change the capital structure in the country if it secures high electoral support in the June 7 elections.

Even though AKP was successful in pushing for major sweeping reforms and changes to the 1982 constitution (as a result of national referendum in September 2010), its inconsistent and vague language -- regarding certain civil and political rights and their interpretations -- still prevail.

Since the AKP came to power in Ankara in 2002, there has been an intense debate over whether the party's Middle East-focused foreign policy has genuinely made Turkey a regional power with influence in Middle Eastern capitals.

officials delivering withering assessments of the competence, honesty, and intellectual capabilities of the members of the AKP government, and a string of AKP government ministers went on national television to denounce all of the Wikileaks documents as part of an Israeli plot to try to blacken Turkey's international reputation.

There are also concerns that the Islamic leaning AKP is using the European constitutional reform recommendations as an excuse to bring the military and judiciary - known to be the custodians of the secular state - under its control to pursue its Islamic agenda.

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